Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday she will not seek reelection in 2022, becoming the latest high-profile Democrat to retire from politics. ...

Sen. Joe Manchin is starting to make what he wants -- or rather doesn’t want -- in the massive Democratic social spending bill more clear, after expressing opposition to including a carbon tax. ...

The Social Security Administration is issuing the largest bump in benefits to retirees in 40 years, while increasing the taxable wage base for workers by nearly 3 percent to keep up with inflation. ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday complained that the media is not “selling” President Biden's $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation -- the same bill she can't sell to Democrats. ...

Budgeting is, for a lot of people, too much effort to be worth the trouble. You know you should budget; you know you really need to budget — but the actual act of budgeting is so exhausting that you keep ...

Budgeting has so many financial and psychological benefits — but none of that makes it easy. And sometimes, it’s so much work to remember and execute all your little budgeting details that you don’t even want to bother. I get ...